Burgers are prepared all over the world and one of the essential ingredients is lettuce. With its mild flavors and all the nutrients that provide us with life and health. Their characteristics are unique, but they have many varieties according to their texture.
To prepare salads they are divine and give a special touch to all the recipes that are made with it. It is rich in folic acid and vitamins A, B, C, D. which are very helpful to strengthen the immune system and provide you with a lot of energy.
It is native to the American continent, but it occurs in many parts of the world since it is a plant of cold soil and low temperatures so planting it in winter is an ideal time for germination and production.
Lettuce also provides an amount of water to the body, so it helps keep us hydrated and regulate bowel movements to avoid constipation. Another important feature of lettuce is that it can be used to increase hemoglobin in patients who have leukemia or problems with hemoglobin.
For pregnant women it is vitally important to consume plenty of lettuce salads. If possible, every day, since folic acid contributes to the formation of the baby’s bones and all its internal organs.
On the other hand, one of the tastiest salads is the one that is prepared with lettuce chopped into pieces, placing a grated carrot, about 3 chopped tomatoes in wheels, a white onion, also in thin wheels, a few pieces of chicken breast, and a little mayonnaise, with a splash of lemon or vinegar and salt to taste.
It should be noted, that many laboratories that today produce medicines and vitamins. They are already using lettuce to extract folic acid, vitamins and minerals that are produced on a large scale and sold in pill format for people with health problems and malnutrition.
For diets it is ideal, since it does not have any carbohydrates and instead of eating a large plate of pasta to fill you with cholesterol and triglycerides, we recommend that you eat a large plate of lettuce salad with tomato and carrot. This will take away your hunger and give you a significant amount of energy. If you take this advice and every day you eat pure salad at 15, days you will see the results, you will have about 20 kilos less.
Lettuce helps cure blood pressure problems, as it considerably improves blood circulation, and cleans the arteries of excess fat, remember that we were designed to consume fruits and vegetables, it is more our flat teeth at the bottom confirm it. That’s why the consumption of lettuce will improve your health a lot.
And it is best to harvest lettuce, in the yard or theft in your house, free of pesticides and chemicals that in the end we consume without realizing it when we buy lettuce in the market. This happens because when lettuce is produced in large quantities and the correct care is not taken, pests can fall and the harvest is lost.
That’s why in this article we will give you several tricks that will help you grow and harvest lettuce at home and you can enjoy all the benefits that this important legume gives us and that we have all consumed at some point.
Big fast food entrepreneurs like Mac Donald. They use lettuce in large quantities to prepare their hamburgers, but on the other hand and thinking about those people who have health problems or simply want to take care of their image and do not want to have extra pounds. It has already incorporated into its menu’s lettuce salads with different preparations and different dressings that are very healthy and super tasty.
Of course, it is important to know that lettuces have to be very well prepared and selected, because they contain so much moisture in their crops. Many parasites and amoebas lodge in its leaves and stems. So, it is recommended to leave it with a little vinegar and water, submerged for 15 minutes and this will kill all the parasites that may be lodged in its leaves. If not, you will most likely fill up on amoebas and at the same time have serious stomach problems.
Instructions for and when to plant lettuce
- Lettuces are sown by means of small seeds that you can easily get in any store in Spain.
- The best time to sow and germinate the seeds is in winter since it germinates in cold soil from 0 to 15 degrees Celsius. Of course, and temperatures less than zero degree are not recommended because the leaves wither.
- The first thing is to have the soil free of weeds and with a good fertilizer or compost that can be prepared by yourself at home.
- Take the coffee grounds, the waste of fruits and vegetables, the eggshells, dried leaves of any tree and dig a hole in the middle of your land or space that you selected for cultivation.
- You add all this waste and mix it with the sand you took out of the hole, then cover the hole with all this well scrambled.
- Water it with water every day for at least 9 months, before you start sowing lettuce seeds.
- After everything is well fermented and the waste is dark in color, take a pickaxe and dig some furrows of the size you want, but with a depth of 20 centimeters and a separation from each other of 50 centimeters.
- In the upper part that is between each furrow you are going to sow, 5 seeds per hole, these holes will have a depth of 2 centimeters and a separation from each other of 40 centimeters.
- In three months, you will begin to see the buds of the lettuce leaves.
- It should be noted that in winter the temperatures at night drop a lot, so you should place incandescent light lamps at a close distance from each lettuce plant, so at night you will be very illuminated, planting space.
- We recommend you place a thermometer in the soil where your planted plants are so that you can have an approach or a distance from the lamps and you can determine an approximate temperature of 2 to 15 degrees, already in the day if you can turn off the lamps because the sun maintains a suitable temperature.
- Lettuce is a somewhat delicate plant, if it gets a lot of sun the leaves burn and if it gets very cold, they wither and burn their leaves too.
- Then we recommend that you place a drip irrigation system, which helps you keep the soil moist and allows you to save water.
What do you need for and when to plant lettuce?
- Lettuce seeds.
- Fruit and vegetable waste.
- Earth.
- Water.
- Incandescent lamps.
- Hoses.
- Pick and shovel.
Tips for and when to plant lettuce
- The first thing is that we recommend the drip irrigation system, because if you water too many plants can fall pests that will eat the leaves of lettuce and lose the harvest.
- If you are in the middle of winter, you have to be very careful to keep the temperature of the soil and the site at 2 to 15 degrees Celsius because very low temperatures kill the harvest and do not let the seeds germinate optimally.
- If you notice that your lettuces are filling with snails or slugs, you can take some sulfur powder and place some on its base or stem.
- Go ahead and become an urban farmer and enjoy eating healthy and living better, thanks to the lifetime benefits of lettuce.